[tex-hyphen] License of hyphenation patterns

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Sun Dec 13 21:12:13 CET 2015


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    to take on any other obligations besides giving authors credit. That's
    basically the point of MIT, BSD or Apache.

This is off the subject of hyphenation, but FYI, the Apache 2.0 license
has patent and indemnification provisions which make it incompatible
with GPLv2-only (GPLv2-or-later is ok).  Apache's explanation:
https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

So it seems like a bad idea to lump Apache 2 together with the
MIT/BSD/Expat/X11/etc. licenses which don't have those provisions and
thus are essentially universally compatible.

k


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